Why go to College?
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The Chapel at West Point as seen from an Entrance to the Area of the Cadet Barracks
WHY GO TO COLLEGE
CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER
Author of “College Men and the Bible”
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1912
Copyright, 1912, by The Century Co.
Published, October, 1912
WITH GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY COLLEGE TEACHER AND FRIEND E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS
The characteristics of a college course demanded by our American undergraduates is determined by two things; first, by the character of the man who is to be educated, and second, by the kind of world in which the man is to live and work. Without these two factors vividly and practically in mind, all plans for courses of study, recreation, teaching, or methods of social and religious betterment are theoretical and uncertain.
Clayton Sedgwick Cooper
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WHY GO TO COLLEGE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
WHY GO TO COLLEGE
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
HIS PASSION FOR REALITY
HIS NATURALNESS
HIS SENSE OF HUMOR
RELIGION AND THE COLLEGE MAN
THE BACCHIC ELEMENT
THE PLAY LIFE OF THE AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATE
CONCERNING ATHLETICS
EDUCATION À LA CARTE
II
EDUCATION À LA CARTE
GROWTH OF PRACTICAL EDUCATION
WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF AN AMERICAN COLLEGE?
THE NEED OF LEADERS RATHER THAN MONEY-MAKERS
ELECTIVE STUDIES
EDUCATION TO MEET POPULAR DEMANDS
PERSONALITY OF GREAT TEACHERS
THE PROFESSOR IN THE LECTURE-ROOM
TWO WAYS OF TEACHING HISTORY
WANTED: THE GREAT TEACHER
THE COLLEGE CAMPUS
III
THE COLLEGE CAMPUS
A WEST POINT INCIDENT
“GROWN-UP” COLLEGIANS
COSMOPOLITAN LIFE AT COLLEGE
COLLEGE TRADITIONS
THE GAIETY OF UNDERGRADUATES
COLLEGE MEN’S HONOR
SOCIETY LIFE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES
COLLEGE FRATERNITY LIFE
THE UNDERGRADUATE’S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
PHILOSOPHY OF SERVICEABLENESS
REASONS FOR GOING TO COLLEGE
IV
REASONS FOR GOING TO COLLEGE
CHOOSING A COLLEGE
IDEALS JOINED TO ACTION
TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL
GOVERNMENT BY UNDERGRADUATES
LEARNING TO THINK
COLLEGE JOURNALISM
A NEW REALISM IN LITERATURE
BOOKS AND THE UNDERGRADUATE
HOW TO INTEREST STUDENTS IN GOOD READING
THE PIONEER SPIRIT
THE COLLEGE MAN AND THE WORLD
V
THE COLLEGE MAN AND THE WORLD
THE ART OF RELAXATION
MENTAL RESOURCEFULNESS
LIFE-WORK PROPAGANDA
A NEW COLLEGE OFFICER NEEDED
LEARNING AND INVESTIGATION
INDEX
